Hamas terrorists left ISIS flags during their murderous rampage, according to Israel — repeating the claim that “Hamas is worse than ISIS.”
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shared a photo of one of the Islamic State’s distinctive black flags supposedly left at one of the many scenes of carnage, with other reports saying some were left flying.
“Hamas brought ISIS flags to massacre Israeli children, women and men,” the IDF wrote.
“Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization. Hamas is worse than ISIS.”
The photo comes just days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened Hamas to ISIS in a fiery speech, in which he vowed that the Jewish nation’s retaliation against the terrorist organization for the killing and kidnapping of civilians “will reverberate with them for generations.”
“The atrocities carried out by Hamas have not been seen since the atrocities of ISIS — children bound and executed with the rest of their families, young girls and boys shot in the back, executed, and other atrocities that I will not describe here,” he said in a televised speech Monday.
Israeli Defense Forces shared a picture of an ISIS flag left at the scene of an attack by Hamas. Twitter/Israel Defense Forces
The photo was posted after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Hamas to ISIS in a speech. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool“Hamas terrorists bound, burned, and executed children. They are savages,” Netanyahu declared. “Hamas is ISIS.
“We have always known who Hamas is,” he continued, speaking of the Israeli people. “Now, the entire world knows who Hamas is, and we will defeat it just like the enlightened world defeated ISIS.”
Netanyahu concluded by saying: “This vile enemy wanted war, and it will get war.”
Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
The Israeli prime minister joined with a top political rival Wednesday to create a wartime cabinet to oversee the fight — vowing to “crush and destroy” the terrorist organization behind the mass slaughter.
“Every Hamas member is a dead man,” he promised in another televised address.
Opposition leader Benny Gantz added that he was “united” with his rival and ready to “wipe this thing called Hamas off the face of the Earth.”
Rockets fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 11, 2023. AP Photo/Hatem Moussa
Damage from a rocket launched from Gaza in Ashkelon, Israel. REUTERSIsraeli forces are expected to launch a ground attack on Gaza, where more than 100 civilians are believed to be held captive.
As of Thursday, Hamas had taken around 150 people captive — including women and kids — while threatening to post footage of them being executed.
